Dorset Poems by William Barnes

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Dorset Poems by William Barnes
Folio Society
Poetry & Plays

Dorset Poems by William Barnes

William Barnes
Edition year 1989
Binding Cloth
Illustrator William Barnes
Weight 0.5 Kg
Pages 84
Dimensions 25.3 × 16.2 cm

Edition details

Dorset Poems by William Barnes. Translations by Pauline Tennant. Introduction by Peter Levi. 10 wood-engravings by William Barnes. Quarter bound in pale orange cloth, pale grey moiré silk boards, pale orange cover label. Ann Muir marbled endleaves. Transparent plastic dust-cover. No slipcase. 25.3x16.2cm. 84pp.

About the book

Dorset Poems brings together the work of William Barnes, the nineteenth-century poet best known for writing in the Dorset dialect. His poems celebrate rural life, family, courtship, work, memory and the changing rhythms of the countryside. Barnes writes with great affection for the speech and customs of ordinary people, preserving a world that was already beginning to disappear during his lifetime. Warm, lyrical and deeply rooted in place, the collection offers a distinctive portrait of rural England and one of the finest examples of dialect poetry in English literature.

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